Maybe you should learn a couple of languages and get your news from the source
That whole post is an excellent summary from beginning to end AK but you know the old proverb, 'There's none so blind as those who will not see'.
Most people in the UK have access to TV news from channels other than BBC, ITV and SKY but many choose not to consider the possibility of hearing news presented without bias, without xenophobia or perhaps, quite simply, with a different slant from the state propaganda organs.
We love to imagine we are free people here in the UK but that's true only if you ignore the lifelong state brainwashing through education and media from childhood onwards. The only freedoms we enjoy are those permitted to us by the rich and powerful. The EU offers greater freedom to all the peoples of the union than we are afforded by government here in Britain and that is anathema to the British upper class. Ergo, those who wish to maintain and indeed expand the gulf between rich and poor created the 'Brexit' movement because they fear the emancipation of the lower classes.
This thread has served to demonstrate the evidentially bereft opinions of those who have been unable to untether themselves from the dogma promulgated by the tory party - the party which represents business moguls, the monarchy, aristocracy and the incredibly rich. 'Brexit' has reached out to the intellectually challenged and has found a ready support among the simpletons, racists and right wing extremists who cannot or will not accept the truth, no matter how plainly it is laid out before them.
AK, you have travelled and lived in places with a culture and language different from your homeland. That permits you the gift of objectivity lacking in the atypical 'Brexidiot'. Many of us have traceable ancestors from countries beyond that of our birth and still retain an affinity for that heritage. Others among us choose to live part of our time in other countries and both those groups share that sense of objectivity you enjoy. There is no doubt that travel broadens the mind so those less well travelled and those of double-digit IQs are probably more susceptible to the jingoistic rants of fascist lunatics than those of better equilibrium.
Tom
